• Korea Trade Review
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.57-73
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• 2019

The purposes of this study are to propose exhibition planning and management skills of trade fair organizers and to provide suggestions on the direction of government policies related to fair items. This study analyzes exhibitor objectives of exhibition participation and exhibition choice attributes using revised importance-performance analysis. This research uses visitor level, organizer services and market attraction of hosting country, as explanatory variables affecting companies' trade show choices. It also utilizes sales and non-sales purposes of participants as variables of exhibitors' objectives. As a result of the empirical analysis and examination of prior research, this study presents some recommendations for exhibition organizers and governments of hosting countries. First, the exhibition organizer should consider the importance of the number of visitors. Thus, the organizer should focus on prior marketing activities to attract visitors. Second, the organizer should make a trade fair plan in compliance with participants' needs. Third, policy authorities should provide environment of free competition among players.

• Journal of the Health Care and Life Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.253-260
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• 2023

The purpose of the study is to be interested in medical tourism after the COVID-19 endemic. In particular, it aims to present a revitalization plan through the analysis of the current status of tourism festivals, one of the forms of tourism for healing. In this life, festivals are becoming an important valuable activity, and more systematic structural relationships of festivals should be analyzed. As a result, it provided very important implications in that the factors influencing regional development by hosting festivals related to healing were empirically presented through verification affecting festival quality, festival trust, festival satisfaction, and word of mouth effects.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.22 no.3 s.93
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• pp.346-354
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to gather useful information for establishing an efficient marketing direction by investigating the performance (satisfaction) and importance for the quality, popularization and merchandising of local foods in the Ulsan area. A questionnaire was answered by 500 citizens over 16 years old living in the Ulsan area. The study data were analyzed by Importance-Performance Analysis method(IPA), frequency analysis, T-test, and ANOVA. The analysis of the quality attributes of local foods for tourist merchandising showed that importance was generally higher than performance. 'Sanitation', 'taste', 'freshness', 'healthfulness', 'nutrition' and 'service' were revealed to be significant ones in the quality attributes. The respondents thought that a lot of emphasis needs to be placed on 'generalizing and globalizing local cuisine', 'passing down traditional recipes','hosting various cultural events related with traditional foods', and 'increasing the number of restaurants specializing in local traditional foods'.